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SVOLT Energy Technology, which was carved out of China's Great Wall Motor, is aiming to start production of battery cells in Europe in early 2023, an executive said during the Frankfurt car show.
Site selection for the plant, with a targeted investment of over 2 billion euros will be completed by the end of the year, Jeffrey Yambrick, vice...

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars marks the 21st edition of the Goodwood Revival this weekend with a display that takes visitors on a journey back in time to the glamorous world of the 1950s.
For the 2019 Goodwood Revival, the March Motor Works will be painstakingly transformed into a replica of the marque’s motor show stand of the period.
The centrepiece...

China's Great Wall Motor may consider building a plant in the European Union once again if its sales there hit 50,000 units a year, as part of a push to seek growth in overseas markets its Chairman Wei Jianjun said.
The automaker has already had one attempt to produce vehicles in Europe after it opened a factory in Bulgaria in 2012 to assemble...

Examples from every generation of Mustang since the iconic sports car’s converged on Ford’s Lommel Proving Ground on September 7, to help set a new world record for the largest number of Mustangs in a parade.
Ford smashed its own record of 960 vehicles, set in Toluca, Mexico on December 3, 2017, with 1,326 Mustangs from all over Europe making the...

BMW's venture capital fund, i Ventures, has announced an investment in Trifacta, a data wrangling specialist.
The new capital will accelerate the company's continued expansion into new geographies and product areas, in particular expanding upon the company's use of intelligent automation throughout the platform.
Trifacta leverages research in...

Toyota has been experimenting with a sun-powered Prius that it hopes will one day require no plugging in.
In a Japanese government-funded demonstration project started in July, Toyota engineers fitted solar panels designed by Sharp to the hood, roof, rear window and spoiler to see how much power the sun can generate. The electricity from the...

Renault is working on an electric vehicle that would sell in Europe for no more than 10,000 euros. The EV could go on sale within the next five years, Renault Ceo Thierry Bolloré said at IAA in Frankfurt.
Renault has a decade of experience building electric cars such as the Zoe battery-powered small hatchback and can use that expertise to make a...